Typically the prosecutor has an advantage since he controls the presentation and can frame it however he likes. But if a grand jury wanted to indict anyway, why couldn't they? It seems like the same holds true in Japan, the grand jury delivered the verdict the prosecutor wanted just like in the US. But the interesting part is, there is a third party (article didn't detail where it comes from or who is a member) that can appeal the grand jury decision.

The sentence in the summary is a bit ambiguous certainly. CO2 is measured as an aspect of air quality in a specific location, not because it is a pollutant in itself. Or if you like, a sound is not necessarily noise, but put a lot of sounds together and you get noise pollution.

An anonymous reader writes: A series of cyber attacks against Israel since mid-2013 appears to be coming from Arab parties located in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere, US security researchers say. A research report by Trend Micro said the effort appears to be using spear...Link to Original Source

An anonymous reader writes: The Electronic Sports League is the biggest organization for running video game competitions. It has now announced that they'll begin testing professional video gamers for performance-enhancing drugs. The league is getting help from anti-doping agencies that help regulate athletes in traditional sports. They say, "[W]e will be administering the first PED skin tests at ESL One Cologne this August, with a view to performing these tests at every Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One and ESL ESEA Pro League event thereafter as soon as the official PED policy is established and tournament rules updated accordingly." This announcement comes after a high-profile Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player admitted last week that he and many other players used Adderall to gain an advantage in tournaments.Link to Original Source

AmiMoJo writes: The men most likely to harass women online are the men most likely to have their own problems. That bit of validation comes courtesy Michael Kasumovic and Jeffrey Kuznekoff, researchers at the University of New South Wales and Miami University, respectively. For their latest study, published in the journal PLOS One last week, the duo watched how men treated women during 163 plays of the video game Halo 3. As they watched the games play out and tracked the comments that players made to each other, the researchers observed that — no matter their skill level, or how the game went — men tended to be pretty cordial to each other. Male players who were good at the game also tended to pay compliments to other male and female players. Some male players, however — the ones who were less-skilled at the game, and performing worse relative their peers — made frequent, nasty comments to the female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.